[Japi-devel] [ japi-Feature Requests-1922145 ] Feature for removed command line options

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Feature Requests item #1922145, was opened at 2008-03-21 13:22
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Category: libs-argparser
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Christian Hujer (christianhujer)
>Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Feature for removed command line options

Initial Comment:
When a command line option is removed from a tool, the tool should still support the option but simply remove the behaviour.

The argument parsing library should support this by having a special annotation to mark such options.

Example:
The command in the old version 1 supports option -n.
The command in the new version 2 no longer supports option -n.

To keep scripts from breaking, the command version 2 should at least recognize the old option.

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